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Swiping left on magnetic stripes

Swiping left on magnetic stripes

Issue 160 | 16 August 2021

Aug 17, 2021
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Swiping left on magnetic stripes

Vicki Hyman at Mastercard has been writing about the end of the magnetic stripe on our debit and credit cards:

In the early age of modern credit cards, they had to write down account information for each card-carrying customer by hand. Later, they used flatbed imprinting machines to record the card information on carbon pa…

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